Sarkar Mehaboob Subhani Foundation, Laskhar Mohalla, has organised Juloos-e-Ghousia (procession) and Jhasne Ghouse Azam celebration on Jan. 22 at 2.45 pm.
The procession, which starts at Masjid-e-Azam, passes through Ashoka Road and concludes at Meelad Bagh Circle.
Mass feeding will be arranged before and after procession at Masjid-e-Azam.
At 6.35 pm, Moulana Hafiz Khari Naseer Hussain Razvi, Deputy Lecturer, Darul-Uloom Sha Jamath, Hassan and other Sunny Ulmas will deliver speak on the occasion.
For details, call: 99012-70392.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> In Brief / Thursday – January 21st, 2016
“I will remove politics from education, if I become the Minister for Education,” said Babar Ali, who is said to be youngest headmaster in the world, here on Monday.
Mr. Ali, who runs a free-school at Murshidabad in West Bengal for poor students, was participating in an interactive session with the students of BGS PU College here.
During the interactive session, one of the students asked Mr. Ali what he would like to do if he were to become a Minister for Education. Welcoming the question with a smile, Mr. Ali said, “First thing I want to do is to remove politics from educational sector. Nowadays, if a person wants to get appointed as a teacher in a primary school in my State, he or she does not require merit. The applicant should have political influence and money,” he said.
At the college level, students were involved in activities of various unions that were affiliated to different political parties. “Intervention of politics dilutes the essence of education. The second area I will stress on will be to make the teachers responsible for the growth of their students,” he said.
Medium of isntruction
To another question on the medium of instruction in primary schools, Mr. Ali said that children should be taught in their mother tongue. “In West Bengal, children should be taught in Bengali and similarly, in Karnataka the medium of instruction should be Kannada. Children understand the lessons better if they are taught in their mother tongue. I have understood this through my experience,” he said.
In response to another question, Mr. Ali said that all government officials should send their children to government schools so that government schools could improve.
G. Chandrashekhar, principal of the college, told The Hindu, “We are all impressed by Mr. Ali’s achievements. At a young age, he started his own school and has been teaching poor students for free. For students, it is a rare experience to meet such a great person.”
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / by Staff Correspondent / Hassan – January 19th, 2016
Children from the State who will be conferred with the National Bravery Awards 2016, at an interaction with the media in New Delhi on Monday. (From left) Beedhovan and Muhammad Shamnad (Kozhikode), Nithin Philip Mathew and Anandu Dileep (Kottayam), Aromal S.M. (Neyyattinkara), and Abhijith K.V. (Kannur). —PHOTO: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY
Eight children from the southern part of the country, including six from Kerala and two from Telangana, are among the 25 National Bravery award winners this year.
The winners will receive the award, a medal, a certificate and cash price from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence on January 24. The award recipients will also participate in the Republic Day parade on January 26.
One of the six winners from Kerala is Aromal SM (12), who saved two children from drowning in a 14-feet deep pond. Aromal has been honoured with the Bapu Gaidhani award.
Another winner from Kerala is Nithin Philip Mathew (13), who braved fire to save his neighbour’s family after their house caught fire in a cylinder blast.
“When I saw that my neighbour’s family was stuck inside their house because of a fire, I broke open the door and entered with the help of others to save their family,” said Nithin, who wants to become an IAS officer.
Beedhovan (14), who saved a boy from electrocution, is also one of the six winners from Kerala. Other winners from the State are Anandu Dileep (14), Abhijith K.V. (15) and Muhammad Shamnad (14) who saved people drowning. The winners from Telangana are eight-year-old Shivampet Ruchitha and 14-year-old Sai Krishna Akhil Kilambi.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Kerala / by Staff Reporter / New Delhi – January 19th, 2016
The 15th edition of Geeth Gaatha Chal, the most-awaited Doctor’s Musical Nite, will be held on Jan.24 (Sunday) at MMC&RI Platinum Jubilee Hall in J.K.Grounds here from 5 pm onwards.
The team, led by Dr. M.S. Natashekar, will entertain the public with haunting melodies from movies of the golden old era.
The musical team includes: Dr. A.L. Hemalatha, Dr. P.A. Kushalappa, Dr. U.G. Shenoy, Dr. N. Snehashree, Dr. Seethalaxmi Somanath, Dr. Somnath Vasudev, Dr. U. Ganesh Rao, R.L. Varsha, Preethi Prabhu, Sparsha Shenoy, Arathi Rao, Madan, Apoorva Natashekhar and Kavitha Niyath.
Geeth Gaatha Chal has presented about 360 numbers during the past 14 years. The best 28 among them will be presented this year. The programme also includes two dances from students of Ganabharathi, choreographed by Nagashree Phaneendra.
Dr. Mahesh Kumar will be the chief guest. Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem will be the guest of honour.
Dr. C. Umesh Kamath of Kamakshi Hospital is the Organising Chairperson and Dr. M.S. Vishweshwara is the Programme Co-ordinator. Industrialist Dr. M. Jagannath Shenoi has sponsored the programme, which will be anchored by Syed Aftab Ahmed.
Admission is open to all.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Wednesday – January 20th, 2016
People donating blood at the camp organised by the Pejawar Blood Donating Team and the District Muslim Paryaya Souharda Samiti in Udupi on Sunday.
Udupi, KARNATAKA :
Blood donation camp organized by Pejawar Blood Donating Team, District Muslim Paryaya Souharda Samiti
A large number of people participated in the voluntary blood donation camp organised by the Pejawar Blood Donating team and Udupi District Muslim Paryaya Souharda Samiti on the SMSP Sanskrit College premises here on Sunday.
The camp had been organised as a mark of respect to Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt, who will be ascending the Paryayat Peetha for a record fifth time on Monday.
Inaugurating the camp, Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt said that the bonds between the Hindu and Muslim communities should become stronger.
The Muslim community had fully co-operated in the run up to his fifth Paryaya, he said.
Members of the District Muslim Paryaya Souharda Samiti had supplied buttermilk to his devotees on his “Pura Pravesha” (entry to the city) on January 4.
The samiti had also donated foodgrains and vegetables as “horekanike” a few days ago.
Now, they had organised a blood donation camp on the eve of Paryaya. This showed their harmonious nature.
“The spirit of cooperation between Hindus and Muslims should increase. This should become a model to the country” he said.
He recalled that his preceptor’s guru, that is his guru’s guru, Vishwajna Tirtha, had accepted ‘horekanike’ from the philanthropist Haji Abdullah Saheb, also the founder of Corporation Bank, during his Paryaya in 1904.
Haji Abubakar Parkala, president of the samiti, Mohammed Arif, secretary, and others were present.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Karnataka / by Special Correspondent / Udupi – January 18th, 2016
They have no cutouts in cinema theatres. They have no big fan following. They led a simple life just like anybody else until the rain gods lashed their fury on Chennai in December.
They rose to the occasion. They saved lives and brought smiles to many others. “We had to make a choice. Whether to sit at home or get out there and save people,” they said. They then became real heroes.
On Monday, 14 people, who volunteered in flood relief work and did a heroic job, were honoured with awards at the Adding Smiles Ambassador Awards 2016 organised by Adding Smiles Foundation.
“We were doing our duty to help someone who is in need,” said Blue Cross general manager Dawn Williams, one of the awardees, in a video on the awardees.
All the 14 volunteers, including Peter Van Geit, Chennai Trekking Club founder and senior citizens of Anandam Homes, were presented with ‘Real Hero Awards’.
Awards were also given to celebrities, who were active during flood relief. The team ‘Mana Madras Kosam’ with Telugu film actors including Navdeep, Kajal Agarwal and Samantha , Sathyam Cinemas and Tamil actor Parthepan were presented awards.
“I am doing whatever little I can do. I have changed myself. As you grow older, you get fearless and want to do things before you go away,” the award winning composer said.
Activist and founder of NGO Prajwala Sunitha Krishnan, team from National Award winning Tamil film Kaaka Muttai, former RBI governor C Rangarajan, national paralympic swimming champion Madhavi Latha, founder and dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management Prof Bala V Balachandran, acid attack survivor Soniya Choudhary were some of the awardees in the ‘ambassador awards’ category.
The highlight of the evening was music composer AR Rahman, who was one of the awardees in ‘Adding Smiles Ambassador Awards’ category. The category included people, who have come the hard way to live a dream and spread smiles in the life of others by way of help.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Chennai / by V. Tejonmayan, TNN / January 19th, 2016
Mysore Muslim FC maintaining a clean slate with three wins in the super-league beat Spirited Youth FC 2-1 in their last fixture to clinched the MDFA ‘B’ Division Football League title for the Govindaraju Memorial Trophy held at the University Football Grounds here yesterday.
Shabaz (57th) and Saadat (64th) were the goal scorers for Mysore Muslims FC. Vaibhav reduced the margin for the Spirited Youth FC in the 40th minute. Mysore Muslims FC (3 wins from 3 games) and Soniya FC (2 wins and a loss from 3 games) earned promotion to the ‘A’ Division.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / Monday – January 18th, 2016
Mustafa M. Raja (left) and Anjana K. Murthy who won the titles in the AITA National U-10 Tennis Tournament (boys & girls) organised by Nagaraj Tennis Centre, Mysuru yesterday are seen with their prizes.
Mysuru :
City’s Mustafa M. Raja, a standard student of Excel Public School, Mysuru and Karnataka’s Anjana K. Murthy bagged the top honours by winning the U-10 boys and girls singles titles respectively in the AITA National U-10 Tennis Tournament conducted by Nagaraj’s Tennis Centre at SJCE Tennis Courts here yesterday.
In the U-10 boys singles final, Mustafa M. Raja beat Jason Michael David 4-3 (8-6), 3-4 (8-10), 4-2 to clinch the title and in the girls category Anjana K. Murthy beat Kaniska Shree (KAR) 4-3 (7-2), 4-3 (9-7) to bag the title.
The results (Final): Boys: U-10 Singles: Mustafa M. Raja (KAR) bt Jason Michael David (KAR) 4-3 (8-6), 3-4 (8-10), 4-2.
Girls U-10 singles: Anjana K. Murthy (KAR) bt M.S. Kaniska Shree 4-3 (7-2), 4-3 (9-7).
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / Monday – January 18th, 2016
Two quick thinking interns perform a miracle on a road accident victim
The mini-bus echoed with laughter and song of doctors and interns returning from a trek to Anantagiri hills on Sunday evening before it stopped at a roadside eatery in Bandalguda. All the doctors stepped out to stretch and walk into Dwaraka hotel, when a miracle happened. Rather, two doctors Dr Faizah Anjum and Dr Savitri Devi, performed a miracle on a road accident victim.
Armed with just a pen and a newspaper the quick thinking doctors created a bespoke contraption to save a life. “It was 7 p.m., as the other doctors went into the restaurant we were resting when the driver said he would move the bus as there was an accident. We rushed there and waded through the crowd to see the victim lying on the road near the divider. He had feeble pulse and his pupils were dilated and we got to work,” says Dr Faizah Anjum.
The accident victim was a 30-your-old man, who while running on the road, slammed onto an onrushing RTC bus and fell aside near the divider, informed an official of Narsingi police station.
“We started work on him right there without moving him on the road itself,” says Savitri.
“We kept a pen to keep his tongue from blocking the air passage. While Savitri used the newspaper to blow air into his lungs, I kept working on his chest for the CPR. After about 20 minutes, the patient came to his senses and started breathing on his own and even started screaming. Then the ambulance came and we gave him an IV drip before he was taken to the tertiary care centre of Osmania General Hospital,” said Faizah.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Cities> Hyderabad / by Serish Nanisetti / Hyderabad – January 13th, 2016
Internationally-renowned mime artist Irshad Panjatam left job at Begumpet airport to follow his dream.— Photo: G. Ramakrishna
Hyderabad, TELANGANA / Berlin, GERMANY :
When 85-year old mime artist Irshad Panjatam was about 18-years-old, he had joined the Begumpet airport as a ground apprentice engineer. Getting such a job back then was perhaps not easy, which is why many at his workplace advised him against quitting, when he took the decision a year after joining.
“I left the job because tightening nuts and bolts, was not what I wanted to do,” recalled Mr. Panjatam, who is in Hyderabad currently. Though he eventually become an artiste, it was not until 1958 that he discovered his true calling in pantomime, which then changed his life and has made him the internationally renowned mime artiste that he is.
Remembering that crucial moment, Mr. Panjatam takes a ride through memory lane during an interview to YUNUS Y. LASANIA .
Excerpts:
How did you get introduced to and develop your skills? Was the art form present in India back then?
I never knew the word pantomime. When I was working with the Hindustani Theatre in New Delhi, I was part of famous Sanskrit play. During rehearsals in the third act, the main actor was not there, so I took stage in his place. Dr. Charles Fabri, a very famous art critic, was present in the rehearsal room.
I started performing, but the musicians were not ready to support me, hence my movements were absolutely silent; without music and without song. Dr. Fabri said it was a very good pantomime act, and then he gave me a book on it. I read the introductory lines and learnt what mime was. It was 1958, and the art form was not present here. I learnt everything on my own.
What was your first performance like? How was the reception to your performances?
I started with short stories like Aesop’s Fables. I showed it to some of my good friends who were also my critics. In 1962, the Indian Arts and Crafts Society, a prestigious organisation of Delhi at that time, put me on stage for my first mime performance. The house was full, and it was well received. After that my friends told me that I was alone here (as an artiste), and that I had to go abroad and perform to know where I stood.
Your first international performance took place in the neighbouring Pakistan. How did that happen?
When I was performing in Delhi, a delegation from the Women’s College in Lahore was present. One of the girls asked me when I was coming to perform in Pakistan, and gave me her college’s address. So my journey began with Pakistan in 1963. I left with Rs.5 in my pocket on the Amritsar Express train, and performed at her college, for which I earned Rs.350 (Pakistani currency).
From there on, I travelled to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Yugoslavia (currently Bosnia and Herzegova, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia), Germany, France, and Britain, where I had performed. It was always about luck, as I was received well and nobody had has criticised my work.
You settled in Berlin, Germany, and have also acted in German movies. Did you come to India often after you shifted from Hyderabad?
I met my wife Ingrid in Bombay. She had come to India as an Indian art student, and was doing archive work in Uttar Pradesh between 1971/72. We settled in Berlin where I started a school called the ‘Pantomime Workshop of Irshad Panjatan’. I used to visit India once in three or four years.
I closed my school in 1995 after the doctor’s advice to not perform. Later, I started my career in German films, and the one that made me famous is ‘Der Schuh des Manitu (Manitu’s Shoe), which broke all records, as it was viewed about 40 million times. I was doing about one or two movies in a year after that.
How would you describe pantomime is your words?
It is an art of telling a story, experiencing a mood or emotions without resorting to words and only with body movements. I never play with any music or dialogues – I am a pure mime. Silence has power.
My German film ‘Der Schuh des Manitu (Manitu’s Shoe) was viewed about 40 million times
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Telangana / by Yunus Y. Lasania / January 05th, 2016
